Tuesday is the dreaded Tax Day, and you have till midnight tomorrow to make sure your check’s in the mail. But April 15 is not the “Ides of April,” although many of our readers feel like Julius Caesar on the Ides of March because our Crooks in Congress keep stabbing over-taxed payers in the back whenever they see how much money is being confiscated from their weekly paychecks. According to the Roman calendar, The Ides of April comes on April 13. Still, Americans should pay attention to April 14, as well as April 15. In our Whistleblower Minute, Hurley the Historian says:

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater.

On April 14, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg.

On April 14, 1986, President Reagan ordered the air strike on Lybia.

But in 1954, APRIL 15 became the deadline for Income tax returns.

Though the Constitution banned a Federal Income Tax (Art.1, Sec.9), Lincoln passed an emergency income tax to pay for the Civil War. It was repealed in 1872.

An income tax was attempted in 1895, but the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in Pollock v Farmers' Loan.

In 1913, with World War I threatening, Woodrow Wilson promoted the 16th Amendment, which was a 1 percent tax on the top 1 percent richest people.

In 1942, with World War II, Franklin Roosevelt passed "the greatest tax bill in American history."

John F. Kennedy stated April 20, 1961: "In meeting the demands of war finance, the individual income tax moved from a selective tax imposed on the wealthy to the means by which the great majority of our citizens participate in paying."

In 1988, President Reagan said: "I believe God did give mankind unlimited gifts to invent, produce and create. And for that reason it would be wrong for governments to devise a tax structure that suppresses those gifts."

That date is the national average. This year Tax Freedom Day is three days earlier than it was in 2007. Stimulus rebates and a projection of slow growth in 2008 are the principal reasons for the earlier celebration.

Tax Freedom Day varies by state and county, depending on local taxes. The Tax Foundation calculates Tax Freedom Day already arrived in Kentucky on April 10 and will arrive in Ohio on April 17. Tax Freedom Day will of course be a lot later in Hamilton County next year, after the Disgraced DemocRAT in the county auditor's office who was permitted to run unopposed jacks up your property values when his "certifiable" appraisers do their 40 MPH drive-by appraisals with their eyes closed.

In the City of Cincinnati , it will be even later, because voters were stupid enough to approve the Failed Cincinnati Public $chools’ humongous tax hike. And if Devious DemocRAT Hamilton County Commissioners Odd Todd Opportune and David A. Pepper had gotten their way (along with disgraced former Hamilton County RINO Party Boss George Vincent), and dumbed-down voters had voted for their Super-sized $900 million Feel-Good-Social Programs Jail Tax Scam that would also have included the GOP Sheriff Simon E. Leis Memorial Hoosegow, “Tax Freedom Day” in Hamilton County would be arriving sometime between Christmas and New Year’s.

And don’t forget to pay every cent of your taxes. In the City of Loveland , mean-spirited rent-a-prosecutors like Strauss & Troy ’s Joe “The Killer Prosecutor” Braun will drag your ass into court for $1.16.